<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Hi Marsha: <br> I have been with the NFB since 2010 and I have experienced discrimination on both the local and state levels. Fortunately, I did not experience this behavior on the national level. Everyone at National has been very good to me. This year, I am seeking to help bring change in a positive way to the State of Florida by running for a State Affiliate board seat. It is time to end discrimination starting at the bottom. I currently am Vice President of the Statewide at-large Chapter and a board member of the Deaf-Blind Division. <br> I have not personally been to HK. The NFB promotes the Colorado Center for the Blind, the Jermigen Institute, and the Louisiana Center for the Blind. The NFB has had contact with HKNC, but I have neither heard support, nor lack of support
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Contents of nfb-db digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. HKNC (Marsha Drenth)<br> 2. Re: HKNC (The Pawpower Pack)<br> 3. Re: HKNC (Janice Toothman)<br> 4. Orlando 2013 National Convention (Janice Toothman)<br> 5. Re: HKNC (Christine Telford)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 22:14:08 -0400<br>From: Marsha Drenth <<a ymailto="mailto:marsha.drenth@gmail.com" href="mailto:marsha.drenth@gmail.com">marsha.drenth@gmail.com</a>><br>To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List <<a ymailto="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">nfb-db@nfbnet.org</a>><br>Subject: [nfb-db] HKNC<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:6E9D1134-6EAE-41F6-8688-AAD5AF14604D@gmail.com" href="mailto:6E9D1134-6EAE-41F6-8688-AAD5AF14604D@gmail.com">6E9D1134-6EAE-41F6-8688-AAD5AF14604D@gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>Hello Listers, <br><br>For the past year I have lost a significant amount of hearing. Last tested I was at a 100DB loss. I have been totally blind for the last 10 years. as a child I attended a school for the blind. So my blindness skills are good. But now with the loss of my hearing, life has certainly gotten interesting and challenging. I will be the first to say that I have been struggling. Currently I am a full time student at a major university pursuing a degree in Social Work. I have one year left. <br><br>So my questions are this, Has anyone on this list been to HKNC? I know the NFB advocates for a blindness skills training center, but that is NOT what i need. my OVR came to and has recommended that I go to HKNC for training. If you have been, I have a whole slue of questions, that i'll ask at another point. <br><br>What is the NFB's stance on HKNC? This by no means will impact my desicion to
go or not to go. I am curious. <br><br>I guess a better reason of why I ask the above questions, is that I have been an NFB member for my entire life, my parents, my grandparents all have been in the NFB. my grandparents were around when the two organizations split. I have grown up with the positive philosophy. I get it, I truely do. But here I have been thrust into the world of deafblindness. Not many people know this yet, as I am working to figure things out, I am only begining to be comfortable with expressing my needs to others. I know that is whole another subject on acceptance, but that is not my point for this post. <br><br>I will relay an experience I had at my last national convention, last year in Dallas. I was in the general session, I got up to go to the bathroom, found my way out fine. Found the bathroom fine. But when I entered the big huge room, I was lost. I asked persons around me where I was. People were rude. i said I can't hear.
people made fun of me. I walked around looking for my state for atleast 15 minutes. I was frustrated, I didn't know which way was to the front or the back of the room or the way to get out. <br><br>I tell you all this, because I realized that my ability to hear, my independence was changing. There were other times that I got lost, but people were so rude, so mean. When I expressed that I was hard of hearing and totally blind, people did not understand, care, or get it. In other words I was shunned, looked down upon, made fun of. <br><br>Why can't people in the NFB accept persons who are different? Why are us who are deafblind looked down upon? And if confirmed, its just because our blindness skills are lacking. That is not the case. <br><br>So do the NFB people look down upon those who go to HKNC? Is there a difference in training philosophy? Again I said this won't change my desision to go for training or not. more curious than anything. <br><br>Look
folks I don't want to argue about this, but I do want answers. <br><br>Thank you for reading, and sorry this is so long.... <br><br>Marsha drenth <br>Sent with my IPhone <br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 00:09:22 -0500<br>From: The Pawpower Pack <<a ymailto="mailto:pawpower4me@gmail.com" href="mailto:pawpower4me@gmail.com">pawpower4me@gmail.com</a>><br>To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List <<a ymailto="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">nfb-db@nfbnet.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [nfb-db] HKNC<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:CAF60FC2-4F5C-43C1-A8EB-AEAA327D3C2E@gmail.com" href="mailto:CAF60FC2-4F5C-43C1-A8EB-AEAA327D3C2E@gmail.com">CAF60FC2-4F5C-43C1-A8EB-AEAA327D3C2E@gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii<br><br>Marsha, <br>I have never been to HK as a student, but I did want to say that I have had the same
experience with the NFB, on local, state, and national levels. Not willing to provide interpreters, Resentful attitudes, nasty namecalling and treating me like I have terrible blindness skills because I'm deaf and therefore can't interact with the world like hearing people. <br>I have to say, that the NAGDU has been the single exception to my experience and is wonderful. <br>I don't go to national conventions any more, because I'm tired of the names and the superior attitudes, and the downright nasty behavior. It's very sad. Because as our population ages, more and more people will experience hearing loss. So the same people who are being rude and horrible today may have hearing loss in 20 years. I hope, for their sake, that fundamental change will have happened in the NFB by the time they need it. <br><br>Rox and the Kitchen Bitches<br>Bristol, Mill'E-Max, Laveau!<br><a ymailto="mailto:pawpower4me@gmail.com"
href="mailto:pawpower4me@gmail.com">pawpower4me@gmail.com</a><br>Sent from my iPhone<br><br>On May 21, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Marsha Drenth <<a ymailto="mailto:marsha.drenth@gmail.com" href="mailto:marsha.drenth@gmail.com">marsha.drenth@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Hello Listers, <br>> <br>> For the past year I have lost a significant amount of hearing. Last tested I was at a 100DB loss. I have been totally blind for the last 10 years. as a child I attended a school for the blind. So my blindness skills are good. But now with the loss of my hearing, life has certainly gotten interesting and challenging. I will be the first to say that I have been struggling. Currently I am a full time student at a major university pursuing a degree in Social Work. I have one year left. <br>> <br>> So my questions are this, Has anyone on this list been to HKNC? I know the NFB advocates for a blindness skills training center, but that is NOT what i need.
my OVR came to and has recommended that I go to HKNC for training. If you have been, I have a whole slue of questions, that i'll ask at another point. <br>> <br>> What is the NFB's stance on HKNC? This by no means will impact my desicion to go or not to go. I am curious. <br>> <br>> I guess a better reason of why I ask the above questions, is that I have been an NFB member for my entire life, my parents, my grandparents all have been in the NFB. my grandparents were around when the two organizations split. I have grown up with the positive philosophy. I get it, I truely do. But here I have been thrust into the world of deafblindness. Not many people know this yet, as I am working to figure things out, I am only begining to be comfortable with expressing my needs to others. I know that is whole another subject on acceptance, but that is not my point for this post. <br>> <br>> I will relay an experience I had at my last national
convention, last year in Dallas. I was in the general session, I got up to go to the bathroom, found my way out fine. Found the bathroom fine. But when I entered the big huge room, I was lost. I asked persons around me where I was. People were rude. i said I can't hear. people made fun of me. I walked around looking for my state for atleast 15 minutes. I was frustrated, I didn't know which way was to the front or the back of the room or the way to get out. <br>> <br>> I tell you all this, because I realized that my ability to hear, my independence was changing. There were other times that I got lost, but people were so rude, so mean. When I expressed that I was hard of hearing and totally blind, people did not understand, care, or get it. In other words I was shunned, looked down upon, made fun of. <br>> <br>> Why can't people in the NFB accept persons who are different? Why are us who are deafblind looked down upon? And if confirmed, its
just because our blindness skills are lacking. That is not the case. <br>> <br>> So do the NFB people look down upon those who go to HKNC? Is there a difference in training philosophy? Again I said this won't change my desision to go for training or not. more curious than anything. <br>> <br>> Look folks I don't want to argue about this, but I do want answers. <br>> <br>> Thank you for reading, and sorry this is so long.... <br>> <br>> Marsha drenth <br>> Sent with my IPhone <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> nfb-db mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">nfb-db@nfbnet.org</a><br>> <a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-db_nfbnet.org" target="_blank">http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-db_nfbnet.org</a><br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 3<br>Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 06:14:52 -0400<br>From: Janice
Toothman <<a ymailto="mailto:janice.toothman@verizon.net" href="mailto:janice.toothman@verizon.net">janice.toothman@verizon.net</a>><br>To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List <<a ymailto="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">nfb-db@nfbnet.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [nfb-db] HKNC<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:519C9A9C.1070607@verizon.net" href="mailto:519C9A9C.1070607@verizon.net">519C9A9C.1070607@verizon.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>Hi Marsha and Pawpower,<br>I empathize.<br>As a secretary of the deaf-blind division, the board talked about lack <br>of acceptance by the NFB to issues of the deaf-blind. We had tried to <br>get asked each state affiliate president for the names of deaf-blind <br>individuals in their state all had denied they had any deaf-blind members!<br>We discussed the growing as more people live longer they will acquire <br>age related
deaf-blindness.<br><br>We will be seeking to propose resolutions this year at the National <br>Convention to hope raise awareness to the deaf-blind issues.<br>Janice<br>On 5/22/2013 1:09 AM, The Pawpower Pack wrote:<br>> Marsha,<br>> I have never been to HK as a student, but I did want to say that I have had the same experience with the NFB, on local, state, and national levels. Not willing to provide interpreters, Resentful attitudes, nasty namecalling and treating me like I have terrible blindness skills because I'm deaf and therefore can't interact with the world like hearing people.<br>> I have to say, that the NAGDU has been the single exception to my experience and is wonderful.<br>> I don't go to national conventions any more, because I'm tired of the names and the superior attitudes, and the downright nasty behavior. It's very sad. Because as our population ages, more and more people will experience hearing
loss. So the same people who are being rude and horrible today may have hearing loss in 20 years. I hope, for their sake, that fundamental change will have happened in the NFB by the time they need it.<br>><br>> Rox and the Kitchen Bitches<br>> Bristol, Mill'E-Max, Laveau!<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:pawpower4me@gmail.com" href="mailto:pawpower4me@gmail.com">pawpower4me@gmail.com</a><br>> Sent from my iPhone<br>><br>> On May 21, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Marsha Drenth <<a ymailto="mailto:marsha.drenth@gmail.com" href="mailto:marsha.drenth@gmail.com">marsha.drenth@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> Hello Listers,<br>>><br>>> For the past year I have lost a significant amount of hearing. Last tested I was at a 100DB loss. I have been totally blind for the last 10 years. as a child I attended a school for the blind. So my blindness skills are good. But now with the loss of my hearing, life has certainly gotten
interesting and challenging. I will be the first to say that I have been struggling. Currently I am a full time student at a major university pursuing a degree in Social Work. I have one year left.<br>>><br>>> So my questions are this, Has anyone on this list been to HKNC? I know the NFB advocates for a blindness skills training center, but that is NOT what i need. my OVR came to and has recommended that I go to HKNC for training. If you have been, I have a whole slue of questions, that i'll ask at another point.<br>>><br>>> What is the NFB's stance on HKNC? This by no means will impact my desicion to go or not to go. I am curious.<br>>><br>>> I guess a better reason of why I ask the above questions, is that I have been an NFB member for my entire life, my parents, my grandparents all have been in the NFB. my grandparents were around when the two organizations split. I have grown up with the positive philosophy. I get
it, I truely do. But here I have been thrust into the world of deafblindness. Not many people know this yet, as I am working to figure things out, I am only begining to be comfortable with expressing my needs to others. I know that is whole another subject on acceptance, but that is not my point for this post.<br>>><br>>> I will relay an experience I had at my last national convention, last year in Dallas. I was in the general session, I got up to go to the bathroom, found my way out fine. Found the bathroom fine. But when I entered the big huge room, I was lost. I asked persons around me where I was. People were rude. i said I can't hear. people made fun of me. I walked around looking for my state for atleast 15 minutes. I was frustrated, I didn't know which way was to the front or the back of the room or the way to get out.<br>>><br>>> I tell you all this, because I realized that my ability to hear, my independence was
changing. There were other times that I got lost, but people were so rude, so mean. When I expressed that I was hard of hearing and totally blind, people did not understand, care, or get it. In other words I was shunned, looked down upon, made fun of.<br>>><br>>> Why can't people in the NFB accept persons who are different? Why are us who are deafblind looked down upon? And if confirmed, its just because our blindness skills are lacking. That is not the case.<br>>><br>>> So do the NFB people look down upon those who go to HKNC? Is there a difference in training philosophy? Again I said this won't change my desision to go for training or not. more curious than anything.<br>>><br>>> Look folks I don't want to argue about this, but I do want answers.<br>>><br>>> Thank you for reading, and sorry this is so long....<br>>><br>>> Marsha drenth<br>>> Sent with my IPhone<br>>>
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Mailing List <<a ymailto="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">nfb-db@nfbnet.org</a>><br>Subject: [nfb-db] Orlando 2013 National Convention<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:519C9D2C.8090409@verizon.net" href="mailto:519C9D2C.8090409@verizon.net">519C9D2C.8090409@verizon.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br><br>The Deaf-Blind Division will hold its meeting on July 2.<br>Registration begins at 6:00PM<br>Business meeting begins at 7:00PM-8:00PM<br>Election of all Officers<br>A moment of Silence to honor Second-Vice President Bob Eschach, who died <br>last year.<br>Topics of concern<br>Helen Keller Celebration 8:00-9:00PM<br>The celebration includes guest speakers and cake and drinks<br><br>Are there any particular topics that people on this list want to cover?<br>Also, if you need interpreting for the meeting please let me know what <br>type of interpreting services you require and
whether you have applied <br>for assistance with the Jernigan Institute.<br>Thanks<br>Secretary,<br>Janice<br>Deaf-Blind Division/NFB<br><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 5<br>Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 12:26:42 +0000<br>From: Christine Telford <<a ymailto="mailto:ctelford@dors.state.md.us" href="mailto:ctelford@dors.state.md.us">ctelford@dors.state.md.us</a>><br>To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List <<a ymailto="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">nfb-db@nfbnet.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [nfb-db] HKNC<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:DF5DE812F61D074182E19B9C9A2AC732EB9E7C@exch2010.msde.net" href="mailto:DF5DE812F61D074182E19B9C9A2AC732EB9E7C@exch2010.msde.net">DF5DE812F61D074182E19B9C9A2AC732EB9E7C@exch2010.msde.net</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>Hello Everyone, <br><br>NFB has a deaf-blind taskforce, right? Or did that fall through? I am actually meeting with
them tomorrow and I can gather some information for everyone. <br><br>Thanks<br>Christine Telford<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: nfb-db [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:nfb-db-bounces@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nfb-db-bounces@nfbnet.org">nfb-db-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>] On Behalf Of Janice Toothman<br>Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 6:15 AM<br>To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List<br>Subject: Re: [nfb-db] HKNC<br><br>Hi Marsha and Pawpower,<br>I empathize.<br>As a secretary of the deaf-blind division, the board talked about lack of acceptance by the NFB to issues of the deaf-blind. We had tried to get asked each state affiliate president for the names of deaf-blind individuals in their state all had denied they had any deaf-blind members!<br>We discussed the growing as more people live longer they will acquire age related deaf-blindness.<br><br>We will be seeking to propose resolutions this year at the National Convention to hope raise awareness to
the deaf-blind issues.<br>Janice<br>On 5/22/2013 1:09 AM, The Pawpower Pack wrote:<br>> Marsha,<br>> I have never been to HK as a student, but I did want to say that I have had the same experience with the NFB, on local, state, and national levels. Not willing to provide interpreters, Resentful attitudes, nasty namecalling and treating me like I have terrible blindness skills because I'm deaf and therefore can't interact with the world like hearing people.<br>> I have to say, that the NAGDU has been the single exception to my experience and is wonderful.<br>> I don't go to national conventions any more, because I'm tired of the names and the superior attitudes, and the downright nasty behavior. It's very sad. Because as our population ages, more and more people will experience hearing loss. So the same people who are being rude and horrible today may have hearing loss in 20 years. I hope, for their sake, that
fundamental change will have happened in the NFB by the time they need it.<br>><br>> Rox and the Kitchen Bitches<br>> Bristol, Mill'E-Max, Laveau!<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:pawpower4me@gmail.com" href="mailto:pawpower4me@gmail.com">pawpower4me@gmail.com</a><br>> Sent from my iPhone<br>><br>> On May 21, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Marsha Drenth <<a ymailto="mailto:marsha.drenth@gmail.com" href="mailto:marsha.drenth@gmail.com">marsha.drenth@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>>> Hello Listers,<br>>><br>>> For the past year I have lost a significant amount of hearing. Last tested I was at a 100DB loss. I have been totally blind for the last 10 years. as a child I attended a school for the blind. So my blindness skills are good. But now with the loss of my hearing, life has certainly gotten interesting and challenging. I will be the first to say that I have been struggling. Currently I am a full time student at a major
university pursuing a degree in Social Work. I have one year left.<br>>><br>>> So my questions are this, Has anyone on this list been to HKNC? I know the NFB advocates for a blindness skills training center, but that is NOT what i need. my OVR came to and has recommended that I go to HKNC for training. If you have been, I have a whole slue of questions, that i'll ask at another point.<br>>><br>>> What is the NFB's stance on HKNC? This by no means will impact my desicion to go or not to go. I am curious.<br>>><br>>> I guess a better reason of why I ask the above questions, is that I have been an NFB member for my entire life, my parents, my grandparents all have been in the NFB. my grandparents were around when the two organizations split. I have grown up with the positive philosophy. I get it, I truely do. But here I have been thrust into the world of deafblindness. Not many people know this yet, as I am working to
figure things out, I am only begining to be comfortable with expressing my needs to others. I know that is whole another subject on acceptance, but that is not my point for this post.<br>>><br>>> I will relay an experience I had at my last national convention, last year in Dallas. I was in the general session, I got up to go to the bathroom, found my way out fine. Found the bathroom fine. But when I entered the big huge room, I was lost. I asked persons around me where I was. People were rude. i said I can't hear. people made fun of me. I walked around looking for my state for atleast 15 minutes. I was frustrated, I didn't know which way was to the front or the back of the room or the way to get out.<br>>><br>>> I tell you all this, because I realized that my ability to hear, my independence was changing. There were other times that I got lost, but people were so rude, so mean. When I expressed that I was hard of hearing and
totally blind, people did not understand, care, or get it. In other words I was shunned, looked down upon, made fun of.<br>>><br>>> Why can't people in the NFB accept persons who are different? Why are us who are deafblind looked down upon? And if confirmed, its just because our blindness skills are lacking. That is not the case.<br>>><br>>> So do the NFB people look down upon those who go to HKNC? Is there a difference in training philosophy? Again I said this won't change my desision to go for training or not. more curious than anything.<br>>><br>>> Look folks I don't want to argue about this, but I do want answers.<br>>><br>>> Thank you for reading, and sorry this is so long....<br>>><br>>> Marsha drenth<br>>> Sent with my IPhone<br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> nfb-db mailing list<br>>> <a ymailto="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org"
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